(Amenduient  0  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  287) 

United  States  Department  olf  Agriculture  ^— 

BUREAU    OF  ANIMAL   INDOSTRYU.S.  DEPOSITORY 

AMENDMENT  6  TO  B.  A.  1.  ORDEK  287— TO  PREVENT  THE  SPREAD 
OF  FOOT  AND-MOITH  DISEASE  IN  CATTLE,  SHEEP,  OTHER  RUMl- 
NANTS,  AND  SWINE,  EXTENDING  THE  QUARANTINE  TO  INl'LlDE 
A  PORTION  OF  SAN  BERNARDINO  COUNTY,  CALIFORNIA. 

Effective  on  and  after  April  22,  liKi'i. 


IGNITED  States  Di:rAKTMENT  of  Agkicultuke, 

Office  of  the  Secretary, 
Washington,  D.  C,  April  ^.^,  19^. 

The  fact  has  been  detenninecl  by  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture, 
and  notice  is  hereby  given,  tliat  a  contagious  and  communicable  dis- 
ease known  as  foot-and-mouth  disease  exists  in  livestock  in  San  Ber- 
nardino County,  Calif. 

Now,  therefore,  I,  C.  F.  Marvin,  Acting  Secretary  of  Agriculture, 
under  authority  conferred  by  section  1  of  the  act  of  Congress  ap- 
proved March  o,  1905  (;>;>  Stat.  l^O-i),  do  hereby  quarantine  that 
portion  of  San  Bernardino  County  in  tlie  State  of  California  lying 
south  of  the  Angeles  National  Forest  and  west  of  that  portion  of 
the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railway  running  from  the  station 
of  Verdemont  in  a  southeasterly  direction  to  the  Avestern  ])oundary 
of  the  San  Bernardino  city  limits,  thence  running  southerly  to  the 
Riverside  County  line,  and  do  further  amend  11  A.  1.  Order  287, 
dated  February  23,  192-1:,  as  lieretofore  amended  by  amendments  1  to 
5,  inclusive,  by  adding  the  aforementioned  area  to  the  quarantined 
area  established  in  said-mentioned  order  and  amendments. 

It  is  further  ordered  by  this  amendment  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  287, 
under  the  authority  and  discretion  conferred  on  the  Secretary  of 
Agricultiu^e  by  section  o  of  the  act  of  Congress  approved  ^^larch  3, 
1905  (oo  Stat.  1264),  and  section  2  of  the  act  of  Congress  approved 
February  2,  1903  (32  Stat.  791),  that  the  interstate  or  foreign 
movement  of  cattle,  sheep,  other  ruminants,  and  swine  from,  into, 
or  through  said-mentioned  quarantined  area,  and  the  interstate  or 
foreign  shipment  of  the  dressed  carcasses  of  calves,  sheep,  and  other 
ruminants,  and  of  the  hides,  skins,  and  hoofs  of  cattle,  sheep,  and 
other  ruminants,  and  of  all  hay,  straw,  or  similar  fodder,  and  of 
wool,  from  or  through  tlie  said-mentioned  quarantined  area,  shall 
be  made  only  in  accordance  with  and  subject  in  all  resj^ects  to  the 
conditions,  requirements,  and  restrictions  of  said  B.  A.  1.  Oixler  287 
aiul  the  amendments  thereto. 

This  amendment,  which,  for  the  purpose  of  identification,  is  desig- 
nated as  Amendment  6  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  287,  shall  become  aiul  be 
ctfective  on  and  after  April  22, 1924. 

Done  at  Wasliington  this  22d  day  of  April,  1924. 
Witness  my  lumd  and  the  seal  of  the  Department  of 
Agriculture. 

C.  F.  ]VL\RviN, 
Acting  Secretarg  of  Agiiculture. 

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